A Visit from the Goon Squad

From Africa to Naples, New york to San Francisco, record producers to genocidal generals, Jennifer Egan tears through her characters' lives with verve and guile. From the 1970s to our not-too-distant future, we follow the fortunes of Bennie Salazar, an ageing music mogul, and Sasha, his young PA, in Egan's latest spellbinding novel that captures their lives' ebb and flow; sometimes popular and affluent, sometimes not. With elegant prose and often heart-wrenching simplicity, Egan depicts the sad consequences of those who couldn't fake it during their wild youth - madness, ...